Stable isotope fingerprinting traces essential amino acid assimilation and multichannel feeding in a vertebrate consumer

PJ Manlick, SD Newsome - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Animals often consume resources from multiple energy channels, thereby connecting food
webs and driving trophic structure. Such 'multichannel feeding'can dictate ecosystem …

Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble

PJ Manlick, K Maldonado… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific variation, including individual diet variation, can structure populations and
communities, but the causes and consequences of individual foraging strategies are often …

Sensitivity of dryland plant allometry to climate

JA Rudgers, A Hallmark, SR Baker, L Baur… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns of plant biomass partitioning are fundamental to estimates of primary productivity
and ecosystem process rates. Allometric relationships between above‐ground plant …

Variation in gut microbial contribution of essential amino acids to host protein metabolism in a wild small mammal community

AC Besser, PJ Manlick, CM Blevins… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivory is a dominant feeding strategy among animals, yet herbivores are often protein
limited. The gut microbiome is hypothesized to help maintain host protein balance by …

State changes: Insights from the US Long term ecological research Network

JC Zinnert, JB Nippert, JA Rudgers, SC Pennings… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the complex and unpredictable ways ecosystems are changing and
predicting the state of ecosystems and the services they will provide in the future requires …

Behaviour, body mass and sex: How intraspecific variation influences seed dispersal by a scatter‐hoarding rodent

P Celebias, A Wróbel, M Zduniak, M Steele… - Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific variation plays a pivotal role in shaping ecological dynamics. As the dispersal of
seeds of most woody plants is mediated by animals, individual variation within the animal …

Integrating isotopic and nutritional niches reveals multiple dimensions of individual diet specialisation in a marine apex predator

R Grainger, V Raoult, VM Peddemors… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dietary specialisations are important determinants of ecological structure, particularly in
species with high per‐capita trophic influence like marine apex predators. These species …

Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities

JL Maron, DC Lightfoot… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Determining how climate affects biotic interactions can improve understanding of drivers of
context‐dependence and inform predictions of how interactions may influence plants under …

High total water loss driven by low-fat diet in desert-adapted mice

DM Blumstein, JP Colella, E Linder… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Availability of food resources is an important driver of survival. Populations must either
relocate or adapt to persist in environments where food availability is changing. An optimal …

Caching in or falling back at the Sevilleta: the effects of body size and seasonal uncertainty on desert rodent foraging

JD Yeakel, U Bhat, SD Newsome - The American Naturalist, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Foraging in uncertain environments requires balancing the risks associated with finding
alternative resources against potential gains. In arid-land environments characterized by …